The virologist Christian Drosten drew attention to the dramatic situation in the German intensive care units.
According to the intensive register, the occupancy has been rising steadily for several weeks.
Berlin - Not only has the number of new infections been rising again for a few weeks, the number of corona patients in German intensive care units is also increasing sharply again.
According to the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, or DIVI for short, 4474 patients are currently being treated in the intensive care unit, 2530 of which require invasive ventilation (as of April 8).
The scientific director of the DIVI intensive register, Christian Karagiannidis, wrote on Twitter to the decision makers in politics and business: “Please act!” Karagiannidis also asked in his post: “How high should the numbers rise before you want to react ??? “So every exit to reduce the numbers will be missed.
The doctor attached two graphics to his post that backed up his statements with data.
Corona in Germany: Drosten draws attention to the situation in the intensive care units: "This is an emergency call"
Karagiannidis also wrote: Cities like Bonn, Bremen and Cologne have “hardly any free beds” for the next heart attack, traffic accident or Covid patient.
Unstable patients cannot simply be relocated to wherever there is space.
"A free bed in East Westphalia does NOT help!"
The head of virology at the Berlin Charité, Christian Drosten, also responded to the post from Karagiannidis on Twitter: "This is an emergency call," wrote the virologist, drawing attention to the dramatic situation in the intensive care units in German hospitals.
Christian Karagiannidis is the scientific director of the #DIVI intensive care register.
This is where the data on the occupancy of the intensive care beds come from.
This is an emergency call.
https://t.co/TZum0RLtnF
- Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) April 8, 2021
Dramatic situation in intensive care units: Do hospitals have to switch back to emergency operation?
The former DIVI President Uwe Janssens told the broadcasters
RTL
and
ntv
on Wednesday
: "If this continues, we will unfortunately soon have over 5000 Covid-19 patients." It could be from 5000 to 6000 intensive care patients be that some hospitals would have to switch back to emergency operation.
Berlin's Charité University Hospital announced on Thursday that it would reduce the number of planned interventions again from next week.
The main bottleneck in supply is the availability of nursing staff.
The DIVI, which publishes the occupancy figures daily, has been warning for many weeks of the consequences of the high number of corona infections and recently called for a hard lockdown.
(fmü with material from dpa)
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